Lyon (AFP)
The mayor of Lyon Gerard Collomb said Sunday against the umpteenth law on the Islamic veil, advocating instead education and culture on the subject.
"I think that it is more by the practice, by the knowledge than by the proposal of new laws, that one would make apply with difficulty", said this support of the first hour of Emmanuel Macron on France Info.
And for him, the problem is especially the "law that is given by the city to impose the veil to women, girls". "It's fighting with culture, education, fighting with Islam as a different religion," he said.
And the former Minister of the Interior to emphasize "a fundamental difference" for him between the burqa and the "veil of Maghreb grandmothers" in France.
Moreover, with regard to the municipal elections, where Gérard Collomb has just been invested by LREM in Lyon and its metropolis, he felt that the community lists could not be banned, but that they should be tried to "dissuade" them. .
The majority has been divided for several days on the inflammable subject of wearing the veil, and beyond secularism. This debate was relaunched on Friday when a member of the National Assembly (RN) took part in a veiled mother who accompanied a class in full session of the Regional Council of Burgundy-Franche-Comté.
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